Course Overview
Reading & Note-taking Accelerator is a 21-week, 1-Semester subject and divided into three streams based on difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced. Each Reading & Note-taking stream aims to improve students’ reading by:
✓ Reading books, magazines, articles and glossaries.
✓ Discussing books and articles as a class.
✓ Creating a glossary to improve vocabulary.
✓ Learning how to critically analyse texts.
✓ Learning fast & effective note-taking strategies.
✓ Learning how to plan and summarise key ideas in their own words.
✓ Learning memory tips & tricks.
✓ Practicing each reading type,
o Skim reading, scanning, extensive reading, intensive reading.
Reading and note-taking skills are indispensable across all subject areas.
By the end of this course, all students should have a faster reading speed, better note-taking skills, a more accurate understanding of what they read, and a better memory of the details.
The aim is that students will finish the course with a new habit of reading books, articles, and magazines; and that this new positive habit will help them to enjoy studying in general.